To a limited degree. yes. The American worker in the steel mills did receive a higher wage than those of Great Britain or Germany for similar work. but the difference was not to a degree commensurate with the higher cost of living. The truth is that the American employers in industry encouraged and fostered immigration into this country of cheap European labor so as to hold down the cost of their labor regardless of the profits accruing to industry. This led to great economic injustice and inequality. It produced in our Nation Fifth Avenues of wealth and pride and arrogance and poverty rows of poverty and hopelessness and degredation.
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European laborers are described as 'cheap labor' used to hold down costs.